The latest Culture and Methods Topic Graph shows the topics that the editorial team feels are gaining traction and should be explored at the beginning of 2019.

• Several new ideas came into view in 2018, but few from the previous year have managed to jump the chasm to Early Majority adoption.
• Many organizations are embarking on “Digital Transformations”, often the same ones who have undergone two or three “Agile Transformations” in the past without seeing the promised benefits. We believe that this is because the adoption is often implemented “to pay lip-service” to the idea, and is shallow rather than truly transformational.
• Pragmatic approaches that mesh ideas from agile, DevOps, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are appearing, and the methodology brand wars are diminishing.
• “Shift Left Security” is slowly becoming the norm – DevSecOps and variations are bringing compliance and security into the product team rather than seeing these as independent specializations.
• Organization and culture design continue to be two important pillars for achieving more effective outcomes.  The new models such as Teal Organisations, Sociocracy (and S3), Holacracy are starting to gain more traction but still have a long way to go.

Source: Culture & Methods – the State of Practice in 2019